Last year's Mortal Kombat 11 was another solid entry in the legendary fighting franchise, but its reliance on unnecessary grinding left us colder than a Sub-Zero fatality. Aftermath, the series' first story-focused DLC, is similarly fun to play but offers a distinct lack of content for the price it charges.
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Mortal Kombat is obviously known for its blood and gore, but it's no stranger to some lighthearted levity either. Friendships have been included in various games in the franchise's past, and are an alternative to fatalities that swap out the carnage for cuteness. Mortal Kombat 11 is bringing them back in an impending content update,...

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In case you missed the memo, Mortal Kombat 11 is getting a substantial expansion later this month named Aftermath. In addition to delving deeper into the storyline with this DLC, it's bringing three new playable characters to the fore. Sheeva and Fujin are returning fighters from previous entries, while guest...

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga received a welcome info dump this past Monday to celebrate Star Wars Day with new key art and screenshots. That was all well and good, but fans were still left wondering when they'd be able to play the game for themselves. Well, it appears they no longer need to ponder that question. LEGO...

As promised, we've just had a brand new trailer for Mortal Kombat 11. The game is getting a big expansion pack named Aftermath, introducing more story, characters, and stages to the brutal fighting game.
Aftermath picks up the narrative from the original game. "Fire God Liu Kang, the new keeper of time and protector of...

Update: Mortal Kombat's official media channels have now posted the story DLC teaser, confirming that a full reveal will take place tomorrow (that's 6th May, 2020). It'll go live at 6AM Pacific time, or 2PM UK time.
Original story: Mortal Kombat 11 is getting a story expansion, apparently. The news comes via PlayStation Brazil,...

Update: Alongside today's celebrations, Warner Bros has also released some brand new screenshots of LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. You can browse them below:
Original Story: After a brief hiatus, Traveller’s Tales will return this year with LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, a brand-new compilation featuring all nine...

If you've yet to play Hitman, the PlayStation 4 reboot of IO Interactive's brilliant stealth action series, you're in luck. The studio announced earlier today that the complete first season is currently free to play on PS4.
There aren't too many details, but it looks like you don't need PS Plus to download the game for...

We've been waiting to see what WB Montréal is up to for what feels like an eternity. The developer has been teasing a new Batman game since September of last year, with mysterious social media posts hinting at a game featuring the Court of Owls. Fast forward to now and we're still none the wiser, really, save for a fresh report that...

Spawn's arrived in Mortal Kombat 11 as a particularly deadly DLC character, and by all accounts he's great fun to play as. But in typical NetherRealm fashion, there's more to Spawn than meets the eye. Not only does the iconic antihero have a load of different outfits based on his many incarnations, he also boasts one very...

The news we were all kinda waiting for has landed: E3 2020 isn't happening. At least, not in its usual guise. There won't be a big live event in LA, and there won't be any flashy onstage press conferences from the industry's major players. We imagine some will turn to digital presentations in the vein of a Nintendo...

Spawn will join Mortal Kombat 11’s bloodthirsty roster in the coming weeks, and here’s your first look at the superhero unchained. Keith David has reprised his role from HBO’s animated series to bring the character to life, and he’ll be available from 17th March for those with the Kombat Pack. Everyone else will have to wait...

It’s been years since we first feasted on leaked footage of a Harry Potter role-playing game, strongly rumoured to be in development at Utah-based developer Avalanche Software. The team – not to be confused with Avalanche Studios, the Swedish studio best known for the Just Cause games – is a subsidiary of Warner Bros...

Mortal Kombat Kollection Online was a bundle of remasters in development at Blind Squirrel Games, but the project was canned last year. However, a rating for a PlayStation 4 release has been spotted on European classifications

NetherRealm Studios may have its own DC Universe-inspired brawler in the form of Injustice 2, but that’s not stopping Batman’s arch-nemesis the Joker from popping up in Mortal Kombat 11. Due out on 28th January in Early Access and 4th February for everyone else, the maniacal clown is at his brutal best, as he cracks skulls with his...

This upcoming Batman game has to be the worst kept secret in the video game industry following months of teasing from publisher WB Games Montreal. It still hasn't been officially announced as The Game Awards 2019 came and went, but a reveal must surely be closer than ever now that two more hints have just cropped up on social...

Well this is pretty big news. Mortal Kombat 11 just got an update on PlayStation 4, and according to the patch notes available on the console itself, it adds crossplay to the popular fighter. Wait, what?
No, it's true. As pointed out by fighting game content creator Rooflemonger on Twitter, Mortal Kombat 11 patch 1.13 apparently adds...

A little earlier in the year, WB Games Montréal got everyone all excited about a possible new Batman title. This game, which is all but confirmed following pretty blatant teasers, is said to be named Batman: Arkham Legacy, and will allegedly focus on a Court of Owls storyline. It sounds rather exciting, but there aren't...

IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series, has really latched onto the idea of service games. After the episodic nature of the franchise reboot, Hitman 2 returned to a more familiar structure, but the team has been updating the stealth-em-up for just over a year, drastically increasing the content in an already packed...

Last month, everybody thought we were gearing up for the announcement of a new Batman title during Sony's previous State of Play livestream. But then it came and went with no such reveal. The project is almost assuredly a thing, publisher Warner Bros has even tweeted out some teasers for it, but now it looks like we...

The Hitman franchise has swapped hands a bit over the years. Owned by Square Enix for a number of years, development studio IO Interactive broke away from the publisher to become independent, and took its bald-headed IP with it. However, it wasn't too long before Warner Bros got involved, offering a publishing...

What's another week if there's no new PlayStation Store sale to talk about? In addition to PlayStation VR's third anniversary sale, Sony's seen fit to arrange another offer on the North American storefront. This one focuses in on Warner Bros' suite of PS4 titles, and there are a few corkers to be found.
For starters,...

If you've yet to jump into Mortal Kombat 11, Warner Bros has you covered. This weekend, the brutal fighting game will have a free trial, allowing you to get a taste of what it has to offer. It runs from 11th to 14th October, giving you four days to get acquainted with the latest instalment in this grisly series.
You'll be able to...

Update: The developer has posted a fresh teaser this evening, showing those mysterious symbols much more clearly. Current speculation is that this new Batman game will focus on the Court of Owls, a secret society and criminal organisation. All eyes on State of Play, then -- this should be a hoot.
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It feels like, compared to its predecessor, Hitman 2 has very much gone under the radar. It was a great game at launch, but we think it's safe to say that the sequel hasn't had the same impact the episode-based original had. Nevertheless, IO Interactive's latest rounds out its season pass content next week on...

After having a conversation with composer Wilbert Roget II a couple of years back about his work scoring Call of Duty: WWII, we're pleased to welcome him back for a new interview. The topic of conversation this time out is centred on his work for one of the longest standing, and much beloved, fighting series in the industry. Mortal Kombat 11...

Republished on Wednesday 28th August 2019: We're bringing this review back from the archives following the announcement of September's PlayStation Plus lineup. The original text follows.
Branded as the apparent finale to London-based studio Rocksteady's gritty affair with the world's greatest detective, Batman: Arkham Knight...

After months of leaks and rumours and some often absurd speculation, the contents of Mortal Kombat 11's 'Kombat Pack' has been revealed. Perhaps worryingly for Warner Bros., one particular leak turned out to be 100 per cent accurate. The Kombat Pack includes six characters: Shang Tsung and Nightwolf are out now, and they're soon...

And there's another PlayStation 5 game to add to the list. We imagine many games currently in development are at least being considered for the cross-generation treatment, but Techland has made it clear Dying Light 2 is getting both a PS4 and PS5 version. Yes, the free-running zombie action game is making the leap across platforms...

Update: As expected, Rocksteady has confirmed the Batman Arkham Collection for release in Europe this coming September. There are currently no plans to launch the game in North America. Writing on Twitter, marketing game manager Gaz Deaves revealed that the package will bundle in Batman: Arkham Knight's promotional Earth 2 Dark Knight...

IO Interactive's Hitman games this generation have been not only excellent, but packed to the gills with stuff to do. Hitman 2 has its fair share of content, and it's of course getting more as time goes on. As referred to in this DLC roadmap, the latest addition to the assassination sandbox is New York, a new location with new...

Ranked mode is something most fighting or service-based games shouldn't be without, and now it's the turn of Mortal Kombat 11 to get in on the action. Kombat League is coming to the game tomorrow as a free update, and it presents players with competitive, seasonal ranked online play.
Each season will last four weeks, and...

It seems like Traveler's Tales has been building up to this for quite some time. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is a brand new plastic platformer coming to PlayStation 4 next year, and as you can see from the above trailer, it's set to be the complete package.
The Skywalker Saga will feature levels based on all nine...

Turns out this author does get things wrong from time to time. Regardless of what CD Projekt RED has been saying, we didn’t actually expect Cyberpunk 2077 to release on the PlayStation 4 – at least not before the PlayStation 5 had established itself anyway. But between this leaked product packaging and a...

It wouldn't be an E3 without Rocksteady Games confirming that it'll once again be skipping the show. The studio's co-founder took to Twitter to break the disappointing news, telling fans that the team is hard at work on its next project back in London.
This is now the fourth year in a row that Rocksteady has decided not to...

Mortal Kombat 11’s post-release plans will get underway from 18th June, with Kombat Pack owners nabbing early access to Shang Tsung. Everyone else will be able to play as the classic character a week later. This will kickstart the brawler’s post-release plans, with Nightwolf, Sindel, and Spawn also joining the roster down the line...

With Mortal Kombat 11 launching earlier this week, the franchise has reached a new zenith. The last few instalments have made great strides in terms of mechanics, as the series has come to transcend its reputation as "the fighting game with all the gore" to become a damn good game in its own...

Mortal Kombat 11 released yesterday, and it can already be picked up for just $50 at Amazon.com. It's a $10 dollar discount on the price it was sold for just 24 hours ago, representing a bit of a kick in the teeth for those that either pre-ordered the game or picked up a copy on launch day.
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Mortal Kombat 11 sees the return of the nearly 27-year-old franchise, and likely for its last hurrah on this generation of consoles. NetherRealm’s latest is a solid kontender for the best PlayStation 4 beat-em-up, but its heart has been korrupted by a baffling progression system.
Picking up after the events of 2015’s Mortal Kombat X,...

Mortal Kombat 11 is not out until next week, but some lucky street fighters have already got their fists on the sequel. Naturally, this means that publisher Warner Bros is currently fighting fires trying to keep a lid on leaks – but it’s not having much success. In fact, a hacked version of the Nintendo Switch edition means...

Huh? Do you hear that? Is that... A remix of the classic (that should probably be klassic) Mortal Kombat theme? It is! And it's part of a pretty damn good launch trailer for Mortal Kombat 11.
With the game out next week, NetherRealm's dropped what we assume will be the game's last trailer ahead of release, and fans of the...

We've known Shao Kahn will be included in the roster of Mortal Kombat 11 for a while now, but NetherRealm has just released a character trailer devoted to the hammer-wielding villain. As a reminder, he's a pre-order bonus, so you'll have to put your name down if you want him on your side.
How does he look, then? As expected, like a big...

Hitman 2 is a gigantic game – especially if you’ve imported all of the content from its outstanding predecessor. But developer IO Interactive has committed to a service-like update schedule for the stealth action sequel, and in a new blog post it’s outlined the roadmap for the remainder of this year. Much of the content is available...

Kitana has joined Mortal Kombat 11’s character roster, as confirmed by the title’s television commercial. Debuting on the same day as Days Gone’s advert, the clip confirms that the ruler of NetherRealm will return – with her iconic bladed fans in tow. We really like the look of the heroine’s design, particularly her high heels...

Beware the tax man – literally in Mortal Kombat 11’s case. NetherRealm’s revealed the latest all-new kombatant to join its brawler’s roster, and it’s literally a debt kollector – albeit one with four arms. There’s some fun background story here, in that Kollector grew up in poverty, so subsequently decided to rip off the...

Of all the characters revealed for Mortal Kombat 11 so far, there are only a couple of totally new fighters. One of them is Cetrion, freshly unveiled today in a new trailer, which you can see above.
Cetrion appears to have control over various elements, able to summon rocks, fire, water, and vines with which to attack her foes. In...

Mortal Kombat 11’s violence is more gratuitous than ever before, but while additional entrails are in, leotards are definitely out. Speaking with Polygon, art director Steve Beran explained that NetherRealm Studios is trying to be a little more mature than before – particularly when it comes to the...

This is just… Well, it’s just wonderful, isn’t it? NetherRealm Studios has released a brand new trailer for Mortal Kombat 11 focusing on the fighter’s time travel-themed story mode – and it’s just a superb couple of minutes. For those of you who don’t know, the premise will see older MK characters brawling...

Mortal Kombat’s always been off the rails, but the upcoming Mortal Kombat 11 appears to be pointing a middle finger at… Well, everything really. The title’s first DLC fighter, legendary kombatant Shang Tsung, will be voiced by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa – who (in)famously played the character in Paul W. S. Anderson's legendary 1995...